17/06/2026
HMRC isn’t impressed by a long list of expenses. It cares about one thing: can you back them up?
Here’s what trips up so many small business owners, you stress over what you’re allowed to claim, when the real question is can you prove it?
A genuine business expense is one that’s wholly and exclusively for your business. If it is, you’re fully entitled to claim it. But “I’m pretty sure that was for work” won’t hold up if HMRC ever asks. A tracked receipt will.
So the magic isn’t in hunting for clever things to claim. It’s in capturing the everyday ones properly, as you go, not in a January panic.
Snap the receipt. Log it. Move on.
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